Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

"when are we going to get going?" Chris says.
"what's your hurry?" I ask.
"I just want to get going."
"There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."

"Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life."

"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not."

Rules of Order state that ...

No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business
of the organisation .... but

No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to
become the majority.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.

I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not to talk about relationships of political nature, which are inevitably dualistic, full of subjects and objects and their relationship to one another; or with programs full of things for other people to do. I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then to work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what i have to say has more lasting value.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days.  Maybe that's why I talk so much.

The truth came knocking at my door, and I said, "Go away! I'm looking for the truth!" And so it did.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.